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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 2, 1939.
SOVIET TRIES OLD TRICK Setting Up Puppet "Government" In Karelia CAN THEN BE RESPONDING TO THE APPEAL OF THE
POLICE PROMOTION
The following official appointments, etc. are gazetted:-
Mr. E. I. Wynne-Jones to be Cadet
Officer, Class 1.
gistrar of the Supreme Court, etc.
Mr. J. B. Prentis to be Official
Receiver in Bankruptcy, etc.
Mr. A. G. S. Major to be a Superin- tendent of Police.
Mr. W. P. Thompson to be a Super- intendent of Police.
"FINNISH PEOPLE"
Moscow, To-day.
THE SOVIETS HAVE ISSUED a communique which only denies that Soviet 'planes bombed towns
and inhabited places, but gives no details of any
operations.
FULL POWERS APPROVED
Paris, To-day.
The Senate yesterday passed by 259 votes to 23 the Bill confer. ring full powers on M. Daladier for the duration of the war. Reuter.
CAROLA GOYA
RECITAL
To-night at 9.30 o'clock in the Hong Kong Hotel, a special performance, the only one in the Orient, will be
Mr. L. R. Andrewes to act as Re- The communique is mainly taken up with the bogus "People's Government" said to have been form- ed at Terijoki, a small town just inside the fron- tier and which is said to be now in Soviet hands.
The several references to this bogus] land," broadcast a proclamation call- Mr. K. A. Bidmead, to be a Super-government lend support to the viewing Finns to rise against the "tyrants intendent of Police.
that it is being organised to appeal and warmongers" in Helsinki, andica from a successful 11-week tour of for help from the Soviet Government, urging the Soviet forces to aid in this which can then point out that it is task. "acting in accordance with the desires of the Finnish people."-Reuter.
Mr. W. La Barte Sparrow to be a Divisional Superintendent of Police.
Mr.. L. H. C. Calthrop to be a Divisional Superintendent of Police.
Bombardier J. Robinson to be Lieutenant in the H.K.V.D.C.
Dr. Chau Sik-nin to be a Member of the Medical Board for a further term.
Mr. G. Miskin resumed charge of pledged
the Swedish, Consulate at H.K.
ARTILLERY ACTION ON WESTERN FRONT
Paris, To-day.
Last night's French war communi- que stated there were patrol encoun- ters and reciprocal artille.y action at various points on the front.-Reuter.
"REVOLTING SOLDIERS"
Was
Moscow, To-day. The new Finnish "government," to overthrow the Helsinki regime,
formed yesterday at Terijoki, a Finnish frontier town oc- cupied by the Red Army, according to the official Tass agency.
The "government" was esta. blished by representatives of Finnish left wing partles and re- volting Finnish soldiers, it declared.
The new "government," which is described "The People's Government of the Democratic Republic of Fin-
In a confident,“fighting speech the other day, Mr. Winston Churchill, told us that while German ships fay Idly rusting in harbour, Britain's world-wide trade is being carried on by some 4,000 vessels, 2,500 of which are constantly at sea. This ploture show a Navy protected convoy on its voyage--by means of which menace of U-boat or air at tack in defeated. Photo shows-The draw of a convoy ship hurrying to their stations for lifeboat-drill. (Copyright, Fox)..
The broadcast announced the crea- tion of a Finnish "people's army." Its aims are stated to include a So- viet-Finnish pact of mutual assist- ance. - Reuter.
AN ALLEGED MANIFESTO
Moscow, To-day. The Soviets are trying to form a Communist Govern- ment in Finland.
The Moscow wireless claims that a has Finnish "People's Government"
the been set up at Terijoki, which
have Russians say they
captured. The announcement of this bogus gov. ernment follows the widespread pub- lication in Russia of a manifesto pur- porting to come from the small Fin- nish Communist Party and is taken as an indication of the kind of solu- tion Moscow will accept.
The manifesto asks for a popular government to drive out "the land- lords and generals," for the nation- alization of banks and industries, and the. conclusion of a mutual assistance pact with Soviet Russia.
GLORY!
Yesterday morning, Moscow broad- cast an announcement that the Rus- sian army and fleet were "covering themselves with new glory."
given by three leading artistes of the Columbia Concerts Corporation of New York, on their way through to Amer-
South America,
The artistes are Carola Goya, con- sidered by many competent critics to be the leading Spanish dancer of the musical world; Beatrice Burford, vir- tuoso of that difficult instrument, the harp; and Emilio Osta, pianist, con- cert soloist and composer.
Carola Goya, in the words of one critic, has flashed across the stages of the world's musical capitals "in an unforgettable riot of colour, rhythm Miss Burford has and grace," while attained an equally high reputation "because of her Alne musicanship, emotional sensitivity and the sonority of her tone."
To-night's programme follows:-
will be
as
"Intermezzo" from Goyescas Granados. "Echale Guindas al Pavo" Mostazo. Fado
Pascaglia
Au Matin
Retana.
Carola Goya.
Beatrice Burford.
Handel. Tournier.
Chopin. Sarasate-Osta.
Emilio Osta.
Ballade in A Flat Habanera
Farruca
Mariposa (Tango in D). Malaguena
Carola Goya.
Sopena. Albeniz.
Lecuona.
De la Presle.
Godefrold.
Jardin Mouille Etude de Concert
Beatrice Burford.
Fandanguillo Danza de la Pastora Paso Doble
Carola Goya,
Azagra.
Halffter.
Salabert,
The Russian people, said the broad- SHELTER' AS FIREWOOD
cast, had learned with indignation of the "treacherous attack made by Fin- land."
This referred to the first news the Russian people had been given, 16 hours after the attack started.
The Russian invasion was pictured as a victorious advan brought on by earlier Finnish attacks!-Reuter.
U-BOAT PASTOR'S "STRANGE DISEASE"
Ex U-boat commander and anti- Nazi Church leader. Pastor Martin Niemoeller is suffering from a strange disease and is very ill, states a report from Parls.
Niemoeller is forty-seven and spent eighteen months in the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp. He was arrested for high treason and misuse of pulpit in July, 1937, but the judgment of a civil court was disregarded by the Nazis.
Ex-Kaiser Wilhelm and the German war hero, Field-Marshal von Macken- sen, trled the induce Hitler to pardon him.
to
Hitler's answer was that Nicmoeller confinement. was kept in solitary Even his guards are not allowed speak to him. .Nazis recently reported that he was afflicted with a "disease of the eyes and lungs."
After spending six weeks digging a trench large enough for fifty peo- ple, and subscribing £1 each towards timber, inhabitants of Kings-way East,
Newcastle-under-Lynie, have had to fill it in again because they built it on the council's land.
They will now have to dig shelters separately in their own gardens. They have chopped up the £20 worth of timber they bought and are go- ing to use it as firewood.
SEE "The Warning"
AND HEED IT
WHAT IS
CIVILISATION HEADING FOR?
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